Departmental Consultants

Jonathan Ashworth: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport which consultants and advisers her Department has employed in respect of the (a) Thameslink programme, (b) Thameslink rolling stock procurement and (c) Intercity Express programme; how much she has budgeted in respect of each such contractor; and how much each contractor has invoiced to date.

Theresa Villiers: holding answer 21 October 2011
	The information requested can be found as follows.
	
		
			 Thameslink Rolling Stock Project 
			 £ million 
			  Costs incurred to May 2010 Cost incurred June 2010   to   September 2011 October 2011 to March 2012 forecast 
			 Arup 4.0 1.7 0.5 
			 Freshfields 6.6 1.9 1.3 
			 PWC 2.5 0.9 0.6 
			 Interfleet 1.5 0.1 0 
			 Booz 0.5 0.3 0.1 
			 Total 15.1 4.9 2.5 
		
	
	
		
			 Thameslink Programme 
			 £ million 
			  Costs incurred to May 2010 Cost incurred June 2010   to   September 2011 October 2011 to March 2012 forecast 
			 Atkins 0.5 0.1 0.1 
			 EC Harris 0.2 0.1 0.25 
			 SDG 0 0.1 0.03 
			 Nichols 1.4 0.3 0.04 
			 Bovis Lend Lease Consulting 0.7 0.4 0.09 
			 Eversheds 0.07 0.01 0 
			 Willis 0.036 0.004 0.01 
			 Total 2.906 1.014 0.52 
		
	
	
		
			 IEP Programme 
			 £ million 
			  Costs incurred to May 2010 Cost incurred June 2010   to   September 2011 October 2011 to March 2012 forecast 
			 Barkers HR Advertising 0.016 0 0 
			 Capita Resourcing 0.3 0.008 0 
			 Clifford Chance 0.002 0 0 
			 Congress Centre 0.012 0 0 
			 Ernst and Young 0.2 0 0 
			 First Class Partnership 0.006 0 0 
			 Freshfields 5.6 1.0 1.1 
			 Jim Standen Associates 0.01 0 0 
			 Manpower 0 0.13 0.25 
			 Mott MacDonald 11.8 0.48 0.70 
			 MWB Business Exchange 0.002 0 0 
			 Nichols 3.1 0.09 0.02 
			 PWC 2.5 0.16 0.8 
			 QCs 0 0.01 0.01 
			 Reed Employment 0.06 0.03 0 
			 SDG 1.2 0.13 0 
			 Willis 0.01 0.005 0.009 
			 Total 24.81 2.04 2.88 
		
	
	Detailed spending plans for years beyond the financial year 2011-12 have not yet been agreed.